Tuesday, December 24, 2013

The Oops Child: Birth Control, Pregnancy, and Antibiotics

Birth control has side effects but other medications can effect that. Antibiotics can render birth control's function as nonexistent. I'm actually surprised how many pharmacists don't mention this when people pick up their antibiotics--even when asked if the medication could have effect other medication. Really, I am speaking from personal experience. I once asked my pharmacist directly after my consult whether it could interact with my other medications.

He said, "No."

I said, "Um . . . what about my birth control?"

"Oh, well, yeah."

Considering I had just been at an alternative school and taught a class of teenage mothers and heard them discuss how many were pregnant because they didn't realize antibiotics negated birth control, it came as no surprise the local pharmacist was negligent. Though, I have sense learned no pharmacist ever mentions the causation between birth control, antibiotics and pregnancy.

About Me

Though Lady Chastity Chatterley's first publication in the realm of
erotica will soon to be out in Hot Dish, she also has written under
other pseudonyms in magazines and anthologies such as: Daily Science
Fiction, Bards and Sages, New Myths, Penumbra, Crossed Genres, Flagship,
Roar, and has won awards from Allasso and Romance Writers of America.
By day, Chastity Chatterley is often busy chasing pirates in her
dirigible and shooting steam powered laser beams, while by night she
teaches and performs belly dance. One might wonder how she has any
leftover time to test the functions of her "Personal Contraption" (or PC
as some call it), surf the "interweb" as she calls it or use her public
log (or plog). Feel free to visit her at Lady Chatterley's Chat Parlor
and peruse her posts on comma sutra, racy thoughts of the day, lists of
worst first dates or other amusing and sinfully sexy anecdotes.